Police around the country warn of a new crime trend called "jugging." Criminals will watch banks and ATMs, waiting for ...

Illinois’ trend of increasing violent crime and decreasing property crime has been seen nationwide, according to data. A SafeWise study found that Illinois was the second-most worried state in ...

Illinois bucked those trends last year, with hate crime reports falling from 346 to 319, according to the FBI. But that dip followed a massive surge, from 56 in 2020 and 98 in 2021, to 346 in 2022.

Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday defended Illinois' sanctuary laws protecting undocumented immigrants at a hearing before ...

According to the FBI’s crime database, the increased number of incidents in Illinois follows a national trend that began following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. “We’re looking ...

(AP) -- Serious crime in Illinois fell again last year ... a 1.7 percent drop from the year before and part of a multiyear trend of declining offenses. But murders were up for the first time ...

As we shift into 2025, states are enacting new legislation to tackle crime reduction and criminal justice policy, but not every law comes from the same school of thought. The pandemic brought a ...

Ten years ago this month, Illinois voters approved the Illinois Crime Victims’ Bill of Rights. Informally called Marsy’s Law for Illinois, the amendment to the state’s constitution expanded ...

Illinois’ trend of increasing violent crime and decreasing property crime has been seen nationwide, according to data. A SafeWise study found that Illinois was the second-most worried state in the ...